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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.